yuck. apparently pcntl_fork() isn't accessible when PHP runs as an apache module (and i guess it's not available at all for PHP under windows).
i'll just put this on my TODO list and worry about it later. :( Thanks, Phil! Pete On Fri 16 Dec 05, 7:34 AM, Philip Neustrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > nope. just have it expire after 20 seconds or something. you're > keeping a log of the captacha phrases, too, so just delete them > together. --Philip Neustrom > > On 12/16/05, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > > The problem is that when: > > > > unlink($filename); > > > > is used to delete the temporary image file, the image doesn't appear on the > > webpage. however, if i don't use "unlink", then the image files tend to > > collect until i hand delete them. > > > > > > i suppose at some point, the image needs to be sent from server to client. > > when that happens, it would be ok to delete the image file. i was *hoping* > > that this would happen immediately after </html> is sent, but it appears > > that i'm wrong. > > > > is there some kind of technique I can use to make sure the image file gets > > deleted after it's shipped off to the client? _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
